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When I finally found Lake Como (after a train, then a bus, then a ferry and then a very confusing walk) I was surprised that it was so empty. It was raining (I think the rain is following me around Europe) and there was no one about so I was able to do my exploring easily. Lake Como is a very small place with not too many things to ...

... worried it might turn violent, but the man was just escorted off at the next stop. Then, a creepy guy who I had seen when I got on decided it would be a good time to take that empty seat. He sat there and stared at me, but luckily it was my stop so I hurried off, trying not to let him know he had succeeded in scaring the **** out of me. People in trains are pretty interesting/sketchy. I got on the bus back to Dello, feeling so much happier than I had in weeks.

... quaint with beautiful villas. We walked the gardens of the Melza Villa. The canons in the photos are not toys....they are from the Napoleonic period...used to defeat Milan. The keys are to the city of Milan from the 1700's. <br><br>The food here is terrific. We travel back to Milan tomorrow to pick up our friends and head to the villa in Montanione. Forecast is for thunderstorms...yeah!<br><br>Love,<br>R ich and Kara

Hi Everyone,<br> Today Alan and I took the ferry to Lenno, another beautiful town on Lake Come. This town is known for the Villa Balbianello. The gardens were amazing and we dedided to take the tour of the Villa, which is usually not such a big deal. We were surprised to find that the past owner of this villa, Guido Monzino, had ...

... down in a square. The tour guide told the story of this event which was in fact played out around Como with the bodies being hung upside down in the nearby city of Milan. <br><br>As with everything these days I was able to retrieve the picture from the internet and have included it to reinforce the adage that violence begets violence - and on a smaller scale even the young love in Romeo and Juliet is destroyed by family conflict ...

... have time to explain anything before the call went dead. So I put the light out, and started to drop off again. But I wasn't going to get much beauty sleep that night. The phone went again, and this time it was Sylvie, from the SylKi RoadRunners. Kieran's credit ran out, she said, and here he is again.<br><br>I have to confess I'm more used to talking to a pensioner than a teenager when I'm in bed, but I managed to let Kieran know we were OK, that he ...

... Italian. Eventually I did return to reality, but not until after we visited Swiss Miniatur and San Salvatore. Swiss Miniatur is more or less self-explanatory, but I will say it was really cool to visit as a Swiss resident. It gave me and my friend some great ideas for future trips in the country. There are so many castles we never even knew existed! They really captured the great sites and monuments of Switzerland, including mountain ...

... tested my patience, kindness and tolerance everyday- until the day or l could say moment when l broke through with each of them. They are as much apart of my life and heart as lam in theirs now- and as much as they are 'work' to me they are also my girls- and l know that given a couple of weeks l will want to be back- stroking their hair at night, sleeping with Marguax in my tiny bed when she is sleep walking and wont go back to her own bed at 3:30am in the morning, trying ...

... he still gave the Maranello crowd a lot to cheer about, coming back from last place to finish in fourth, and after the race was over the packed piazza was still running high with scarlet fever.<br> <br>I may not follow Formula One anywhere near like I used to when I was a kid &#8211; and even then I was never a fan of Ferrari (my allegiance was to Nigel Mansell and the Williams team), but this night will still live long in my memory nonetheless.

... and liquor, a fresh fish and meat counter and a whole wall of chocolate bars. Jenn ended up getting a stuffed pepper and some cornbread while I went with a cold chicken cordon blue and a shrimp/rice salad. We walked back down to the water and ate our meal on a red bench while watching a little boy feed the swans. It was getting late in the day so Jenn and I started back up the hill. We stopped at a bar to find out what "grappa" was. We had seen it in ...